Science Please Help: What colour is this dress?

[Colour Scientist]

Holy shit, my user name has never been more relavent to an OP.

[sub][sub]Alright, CS, time to shine. Don't fuck it up.[/sub][/sub]

Stand back people, I'm a professional.

*ahem*

It looks like a very pale purple/blue with gold detail in the original image.

[sub ][sub]Nailed it.[/sub][/sub]

I regret to inform you that we, the Department of Global Color Continuity, are revoking your color science license.

We also suggest that you go see an ophthalmologist.

What?

No, you can't do this to me.

I made colour science. You people would be nowhere with out me!

I was the only one with the guts to carry out those colour experiments on POWs during the war. I made all of the breakthroughs. Me!

You don't even spell it properly!

 

[Fappy]

Holy shit, my user name has never been more relavent to an OP.

[sub][sub]Alright, CS, time to shine. Don't fuck it up.[/sub][/sub]

Stand back people, I'm a professional.

*ahem*

It looks like a very pale purple/blue with gold detail in the original image.

[sub ][sub]Nailed it.[/sub][/sub]

I regret to inform you that we, the Department of Global Color Continuity, are revoking your color science license.

We also suggest that you go see an ophthalmologist.

What?

No, you can't do this to me.

I made colour science. You people would be nowhere with out me!

I was the only one with the guts to carry out those colour experiments on POWs during the war. I made all of the breakthroughs. Me!

You don't even spell it properly!

I'm sorry, CS, I really am. I mean listen, just between you and me the guys on the board don't know what the fuck they're talking about. They're all like "but pink is just a shade of red" and blah, blah, blah. Believe me, some of us still remember the people who made the real sacrifices. We remember the true patriots.

I mean this dress thing... it'll be forgotten in no time. Once people have moved on to the next color controversy I'll get your license reinstated. I'll bet my mortgage on it.

...

It's fucking late...

 

[Armadox]

*raises an eyebrow* I.. can't even see the original image as anything but a desaturated blue and grey (could be black, but the image is pretty faded and thus isn't true black). I don't know how you can see white and gold, as every time I've seen this image it's been the same muddled blue and off black.

Part of me wonders if I'm not getting the joke and those that say white/gold are just taking the piss, an in joke I'm not getting somehow.

 

[Parasondox]

Part of me wonders if I'm not getting the joke and those that say white/gold are just taking the piss, an in joke I'm not getting somehow.

That is where I am confused too. Either a very strange inside joke or they actually see gold and white.

 

[tilmoph]

The dress in the OP looks light blue and brown/tan. Maybe gold if I squint.

 

[IceForce]

Is this a trick question?

 

[FirstNameLastName]

When I first looked at it, it seemed a sort of light lilac and gold, but after looking at this ...

[snip]

I can only see blue and black, taken in extremely poor lighting. Seriously, no matter how I look at it, I can no longer see what I originally saw.
With the evidence of many other photos of this same dress, all of them being blue and black with none being white and gold, I will have to conclude that it is just an issue of the photo.

So ... it's blue and black.

 

[FalloutJack]

Okay, basically? It's ugly. But apart from that, my guess is that the picture-taking procedure did a weirdness and that's where this argument comes from.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Thats not remotely close to black! Definitely white and gold!

 

[Teoes]

Blue and black! Even with the pictures trying to make it look white and gold, my brain says "Nope, don't be a tit. Dat be black and blue."

 

[Allum_Bokhari]

Clearly green and purple.

"runs"

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

What?

No, you can't do this to me.

I made colour science. You people would be nowhere with out me!

I was the only one with the guts to carry out those colour experiments on POWs during the war. I made all of the breakthroughs. Me!

You don't even spell it properly!

This is how you become a super villian isn't it? Couple of months from now you're going to build some kind of colour ray that absorbs colour and turns everything monochrome so you're the only one who gets to have colour, like that child in Schindler's List.

I thought it was pale blue and gold but after looking at Dirty Hipster's post it's pretty clear now that it's white and gold.

 

[Scarim Coral]

To me the light colour part look like light blue/ grey/ lilac and maybe white while the dark colour look like gold or brown in my eyes.

 

[Drizzitdude]

Blue and Black yo.

 

[Toejam]

I'm not sure where people are getting 'black' from.

Black is a pretty clear-cut color. We're not talking about slightly different shades of aqua/cyan/teal/turquoise here. We're talking about black.

Black is black.

If you see the above color as black, then you might need your eyes tested. Either that or the brightness/color settings on your monitor badly need adjusting.

Check out Dirty Hipsters post and you'll see

Personally I 1st saw it as a light lilac and gold, read through his post, saw the last pic, went back to the top and it had changed into blue and black. Very cool. It now won't actually go back to what I 1st saw

Oh and I had my eyes tested 2 weeks ago and I got the all clear

 

[IceForce]

So, I guess one could say...

Gold is the new black.

 

[lechat]

when i first saw it i would have bet my life that it was off white (maybe light blue) and gold but after seeing Dirty Hipster's post it instantly changed to blue and black almost exactly how the dress looks in real life.
I now see it as a sort of brown and light blue which i assume is my brain just saying i've had enough of this bullshit.

If you still see the image as gold and white i want you to open these two images in separate windows
https://40.media.tumblr.com/3d94e0fca919dd88f30fce05d8751faa/tumblr_nkeng29h6G1qagplio1_500.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-0P6OkUMAA71iv.jpg
stare at the first image for 30 seconds then switch to the second. judging on a rough test i done with family members it should result in a mental shift for most people.

 

[CymbaIine]

Looks like a light purple and gold to me, but that could just be the lighting making white look like a light purple.

No idea how someone could see this as black and blue you freak.

Haha, no, I kid, I kid.

I know the reason this happens.

Basically the photo was taken in really poor lighting and people's eyes actively color correct the photo to what their brain thinks the color was supposed to be. Some people see the light as having desaturated the picture and therefore think that the light purple color is supposed to be blue and the gold is supposed to be black (yeah, light works in weird ways) whereas others see the lighting as having created too much shadow, which made a white dress look light purple.

Stare at this image and then look back at the picture in the OP:

Spoiler

What color does the dress look to you now?

Now refresh the page and try again with this picture:

Spoiler

Now your eyes have seen the same dress as both white and gold and blue and black. Weird huh?

It just has to do with the way people's eye's color correct for different lighting.

Seriously though, anyone who sees the dress as blue and black is wrong though.

You've just blown my fucking mind. I looked at the bottom pic for a second and the dress changed colour. It's slowly changing back to gold and white every time I tab back. ATM it's gold and blue.

 

[Frezzato]

Erm, that shit is white and gold. Are you people trawlin?

Spoiler: You be trawlin'.

You be trawlin'.

 

[lord canti]

Stand back every one, I'm about to post....SCIENCE. http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/